ORGANIZATION OF CANTON OPERATION HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST AIR FORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500150003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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W4FORMATION REPORT
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The follotrini? units are under the coman) of the Canton Operations headcuarters
of thE Lir Force Command Keadquarters of t CentrA and South China 2,./i1itary
Area:
15 JLng, 4 Air Division (7\
b: 6 Searchlight Battalion
Ant ?aircraft batta3 Ion
truck battalion
Canton office of the Civil Air ::aviation Bureau
1;%, tir Force cupply station
The Canton Operations headTarters is divided into the combat department and
the grotind service department,. Under these ttz) departments "lre the following
foctionr.-;:
4/4 liavigation
bo :echanics
q;.1 hadar
d, hetcorology
c Radio communications
f, Air defense
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Ma Catatcm Operations Headquarters employs over 1,000 persons, including a
(le about 30 Soviet advisers and technical personnel, among wham is
),_ The higbeet-ranking Chinese Communist Air Force official
Cheia-rmg(' ), chief of the Headquarters,: Most of the 15 Wing
are graduates o# the air force academies at Chiamusan and Madan,
.:JhAlc,) others include the following
PDsonnei of the CNA C and CAN, former NPtionalist airlines.
.? PIT,rsoema who passed examinations given by air force authorities at
.ton ir. 1949,
04Acers transferred. from North and Northeast Chini,
? Gadoates of the Soviet Higher Air Force Academy,
Othor tivin the mechanics, personnel of the 15 W4ng and the Soviet Advisory
at lhite Cloud seldom go to Canton,
To Canton Operationsileadquarters and headquarters of the 15 Wing are at
Vfhtv Cada& Surrounding the airfield, which is guarded by the 3 Guard Bat-
't7.1,t1.1 of the Kwangtung Talitary District, are four new. Soviet anti-aircraft
u? ns- and sight Japanoss-mde anti-aircraft guns, At White Cloud are tra4ning
planes and C-46 transports, and sufficient numbers of YAK and 111G-15 aircraft
t utfit me group (17 No construction is going an at Tienho Airfiold,
zl.t there Is much activity at !Alite Cloud,
Durtnr the monler of 1951, the Shihohing ) Arms and flnnitions Factory
,-epalie a mmber of anti-aircraft guns and mounted them on the Tienho grounds,,
/ate September some aircraft used by the Civil Navigation Bureau were at
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